Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:19, Claude Jones wrote:
Two NICS: eth0 is WAN 209.249.226.25 eth1 is LAN
192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0
Bad diagram: Laptop via wireless---> AccessPoint ----> inside NIC
on Linux box ---> Routed by Linux to outside NIC which is on
broadband direct to the internet.
Question: If my laptop is getting a 192.168.2.1-255 subnet address
via DHCP from the Linux machine, and the Linux Lan is set to
192.168.2.0/255.255.255.000, how is it that the AP which,
presumably is assigned to a different subnet able to pass traffic?
This is what I don't understand.
The AP is acting as a transparent bridge. The problem may be that the
APs address is 192.168.0.50 per the documents. Make sure you configure
your laptop for 192.168.0.52 or something in that same subnet and as the
instructions say use a direct connect wire for this.
Thanks, Scot. You pointed me in the direction of the one obvious thing I
hadn't tried. I reconfigured the hardware NIC in the laptop to the same
subnet as the AP and connected right up when I plugged the AP cable
straight in to the laptop. I changed its address to be consistent with
my subnet and then put everything back. Now, I can see the AP from my
Linux box and all is well. Thanks to all.
